Claire happy to no longer expect...but embrace the sweet lovely mess that is real life.
But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start. Do you know what I mean, Pasquale? He did...
And when our lives do begin? I mean, the exacting part, the action? It's all so fast.
And what she loved about Lydia’s play: that it gets at this idea that true sacrifice is painless.
And I wonder if we don't live like waterseeking a levela low beduntil one day we just go dry.I wonder if a creek ever realizesit has made its own grave.
The more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe
Mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it. Pasquale waited until the
Zo gaat het wanneer je je verliest in dromen, dacht hij: je droomt van het een, je droomt van het ander en voor je het weet heb je je hele leven verslapen.
You can't just say that, Pasquale. Those words have tremendous power. It's how people end up married.
What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? Who could live even a day and not feel the sweet ache of regret?
This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life. He needed coffee.
There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant — sail for Asia and stumble on America — and the hope of scarecrows and tin men: that you find out you had...
Then she smiled, and in that instant, if such a thing were possible, Pasquale fell in love, and he would remain in love for the rest of his life--not so much with the woman, whom he didn't even know,...
The whole world is sick...we've all got this pathetic need to be seen. We're a bunch of fucking toddlers trying to get attention.
The truth hurts only if you’re comforted by lies.
The eye sees everything upside down, the artist explained, and then the brain automatically reverses it. I’m just trying to put it back the way the mind sees it. Alvis
Sometimes, now, when she sees how content Pat and Lydia are, she feels like a spent salmon: her work here is done. But other times, honestly, the whole idea of being at peace just pisses her off. At p...
Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same.
Sometimes it was like a deep ache, the simple act of breathing in and out.
So I make one phone call, and just like that, we're eating pizza at 6:30. What is this world? You tap seven abstract figures onto a piece of plastic thin as a billfold, hold that plastic device to you...